Barack Obama said in his speech:
“We will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.”
When I heard Obama saying this, it took me a while to figure out why it bothered me so much. After some thought, I think it was the sheer arrogance and amazing sweeping grandiosity of his claims. In nominating him as a candidate for president, we now have progressed from not caring for the sick to caring for the sick. The rise of the very oceans have slowed. The planet has begun to heal.
But a couple of simple responses to this:
1. Doctors, nurses, families, churches, others have long cared for the sick. Sickness is a part of the world. It existed (and was cared for) long before Barack Obama and will exist long, long after he is gone.
2. There is no evidence that the oceans are rising. And even if the oceans were rising, Obama’s election as the democratic nominee doesn’t change this.
3. The planet did not begin to heal on Tuesday. I feel silly even saying this.
I’ve always noticed that the democrats seem to place much more importance on charisma, even in the absence of substance. They are much more susceptible to the “cult of personality” that characterizes our mass-media age. This was true of Bill Clinton, and this is definitely true of Obama. A nice smile, a few reassuring words, and (literally) no sin is unforgivable. Indeed, no sin is even bad anymore. People KNEW when they elected Bill Clinton that his unbounded libido wouldn’t just go away when he got into the White House. And as we all know, it didn’t.
Now we have Obama, and his skeleton-in-the-closet is being brushed aside PRECISELY the same way Bill Clinton’s was. “Oh, that’s irrelevant—obviously all these stories reflect the media much more than they reflect on Obama. Does he LOOK like a racist?” But underneath it all, again, we know that the candidate has a fatal flaw. We know that his true character and beliefs are not the image he’s presenting. And if it was bad when Bill Clinton used the office for his tawdry sexual affairs, it will be much worse when Obama’s fatal flaw surfaces, and angry, black, embittered anti-white racism’s most prominent believer holds more executive power and legislative influence than any other person in the country. I wonder what shape it will take, and how drastically it will change our culture. A few years ago, oral sex was virtually unmentionable, now it is the subject of a hundred double entendres, jokes, gags and frank discussions on even network television each night. [LA replies: and it became common among teenagers.] Will the next president’s fatal flaw also become our national obsession?